How can you tell?
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| phsolide Apr 21, 2009 8:52 PM EDT |
That "Windows 7" or "Windows WipeOut" or "Smokehorn" or "Windows WOW" or whatever focus-group pablum they decide to name is broken? How can you tell it's broken? It can only run 3 "apps" at a time? How can you tell? It's so dadgum slow changing "apps" in Windows right now that you basically can't multi-task between "apps". Also, most of them are full of modal windows and interfaces, which means you can't see the "properties" of more than one "object" at a time anyway. Windows NT is so broken by design, that even spackling it over with the also broken by design Win32, and double-spackling it with broken by design "Foundation" classes only serves to spread the blame really really thin. So very many basic decisions in Windows drive "app" developers to make all-singing, all-dancing "apps" anyway, who cares? |
| gus3 Apr 21, 2009 10:16 PM EDT |
How do they define "application," anyway? A runnable context? Something with windows in the UI? Something that accesses the network? Three applications? Sure, as long as one of them is Wubi. |
| techiem2 Apr 21, 2009 10:23 PM EDT |
Quoting:How do they define "application," anyway? That's been the question ever since they announced that they would be doing Windows 7 Starter. Shell + Volume Manager + Antivirus? They're all technically applications..... |
| theboomboomcars Apr 21, 2009 10:25 PM EDT |
gus that is an interesting question. Are driver interface programs considered an application? Antivirus? If they are, then people won't even be able to use their computers. Sorry you are running your graphics configuration utility, your sound configuration utility, and you Anti-malware program please enter credit card information for the ability to run something else, only $5.00 per application. Sounds like a winning deal for MS. |
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